Jim Harris
dal 31/3/2006 al 28/4/2006
Segnalato da
31/3/2006
Jim Harris
Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
The gallery starts with a program of eight artists, which involves five artists from former artists-run space rekord. Firrst exihibition: Jim Harris, british formalistic paintings on canvas.
The gallery starts with a program of eight artists, which involves five
artists from former artists-run space rekord.
Added are Jim Harris, the Berlin painter Felix Muller (*1969 Berlin) and
Katja Pfeiffer (*1973 Karlsruhe, lives in Berlin), who studied sculpture
at Academy Dusseldorf in the class of Gunther Uecker as well as painting
in the class of Alfonso Huppi. A central field of activity is young
german painting. The program is supplemented by Video Art (Lisa
Junghanss) and Photography (David Adam). Antje Blumenstein and Katja
Pfeiffer are working with sculpture and installation as well as
painting.
Jim Harris
We start with an exhibition by the british painter Jim Harris.
Harris` main focus is on the tension between brushstrokes on a
two-dimensional surface and the resulting picture. Consequently, he
defines himself as a formalist. Harris is a painter interested not in
content or motifs, but in the process of painting.
To underline this independence from subject matter, the show centres on
sand pictures painted early in 2006 at a sand pit. The way he treats the
paint on the canvas matches the way the diggers scoop up the sand and
pile it somewhere else. Very thin layers where the canvas remains
visible stand alongside thickly applied areas where the paint is pushed
together. From this seemingly monochrome material, Harris uses the play
of light and dark to obtain a riot of colour.
Opening: Saturday, April 1st 6 PM
Galerie Martin Mertens
Brunnenstrasse 162 - Berlin